By Dan Gonzales, www.modern.prosaic.nu for Ex-Gay Watch I was baffled by the Family News in Focus audio program (Windows Media, Real) even more than normal Aug. 26. Rather than taking the moral high ground and criticizing Cheney’s remarks from a…
‘People Can Change’: Ex-gay, Ex-exgay Mormons
The Deseret Morning News profiles Glenn Wyler, founder of People Can Change, an online ex-gay ministry. The article gives due attention to Wyler’s journey, his claim to be completely heterosexual, and his scheduled weekend retreat. The article gives more-than-equal time,…
I’ve got bigger stories than this to report, but I’ve been busy. A couple folks gave me a gentle push about this item, though, so here it is. Jon Rowe notes an interesting thing about ex-gay ex-tolerance activist Noe Gutierrez,…
XGW recently banned one antigay activist who disrupted the site. She felt that threatening people, making false statements, refusing to substantiate her accusations, posting off-topic messages across multiple pages, shouting down people’s responses, and intentionally reposting the same identical message…
Gay Male Relationships: Toads And Princes
Some gay relationships are looked up to, with admiration, by gay and nongay peers alike. And like heterosexual relationships, some gay pairs serve are fodder for tales about drama queens, bipolar disorder, f-buddies, cheaters and beaters. Some pairs live in…
Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mark Yarhouse
‘It’s Elementary’: Noe Gutierrez Turned Ex-gay
Here’s an old story, well-known among ex-gays for a long time now; not so well-known among gays. Noe Gutierrez, a star of the safe-schools/pro-tolerance video “It’s Elementary,” is now ex-gay. At his web site, Gutierrez says that upon coming out…
Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Prof. Warren Throckmorton
Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, 21-22 August 2004
No Milk Please offers a parody today of what makes gay people unhappy, and why people “change.” Jon Zuck of the normally peaceful and meditative Wild Things of God blog comments on “ayatollah” Pat Robertson’s latest “fatwa”: On Aug. 19,…
Hypersensitive Over the Word ‘homosexual’
Sean Kinsell comments today on persnicketiness over the identification of people as “gay” or “homosexual.” Both gay and antigay people can become very touchy when they disapprove of the adjective being used. In court, antigay lawyers called gay attorney John…